Director Paul Feig Responds to Hateful Response to Ghostbusters Trailer
Back in May we reported that the Ghostbusters reboot had set a record for being the most disliked YouTube trailer ever (it’s currently at 914,472 dislikes, up over 300k since we first made mention of it). Now, just days away from the film’s release, director Paul Feig has responded to the reaction.
“It was a bummer,” Feig tells IGN, “but if you want to look glass half-full, we’re also the most liked if you look at the number of likes compared to other trailers, so okay, we’ll take that one little victory. But I get it. Here’s the thing. Being on camera, it’s nice I can say this because I do these print interviews, and they always pull one part of my quote out. I’ve said from day one – I get that there is a bunch of people who just are trepidatious, nervous, mad that we’re doing a reboot. Or touching this at all. And I completely get that – those people, I get that, I hear you, I would be nervous too if I didn’t know what I was doing with it. And then there was the wave who just hated that it was women. And that to me is the non-starter. But that was a part of the group – it wasn’t everybody. Everybody on the internet is painting it like I have been sayin,g ‘If you don’t like it, you’re against women.’ I’ve never said that, ever. They take the quotes, and they pull one part of the quote. So I understand – I completely get why people are nervous, so you just go… all I can ask is please, just judge the movie on its own merits. Don’t judge it off a trailer.”
The trailer now sits at number 9 of the top 25 most disliked videos ever list.
Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones are our new paranormal investigators along with their loyal secretary Chris Hemsworth. Neil Casey, Andy Garcia, Michael K. Williams, Matt Walsh, Pat Kiernan, Cecily Strong, and Charles Dance also star. Cameos will include the original film’s stars Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, and Annie Potts plus Ozzy Osbourne and more.
The Ghostbusters reboot will haunt the big screen on July 15, 2016.
Synopsis:
Dead criminals from all eras of New York’s underbelly past have returned to roost among the living. Pilgrims, old-timey sailors, Revolutionary War spirits, and even a couple of zoot-suited gangsters are ready to take on four formidable female busters looking to rid the city of its phantasmic filth.
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